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Our destination mountain as seen through the zoom lens along Loch Ericht from Dalwhinnie ...
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Leaving Dalwhinnie with everything but the kitchen sink ...
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Best not to stop when you're top-heavy
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Riding past Culra bothy
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Loch a Bhealaich Bheithe outflow
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Loch a Bhealaich Bheithe still mostly frozen ...
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The skinning starts ...
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On the haul to the summit ...
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Evening ski ...
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Frosted tents on the summit at dawn
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At the summit shelter ...
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View west into Garbh Coire towards the gully lines we wanted the sun to bake ...
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View east into Garbh Coire at dawn, the frozen Loch a Bhealaich Beithe still in shadow ...
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Chilly, but time for some breakfast after another sleep ...
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Yours truly
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A nice ramp entry into a gully ...
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Dropping into Garbh Coire ...
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Plenty of snow, plenty of room ...
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Hmm, lush in the sunshine ...
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Hmm, crispy in the shadier bits ...
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Looking back to one of our lines ...
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Topping out of a sluffy Garbh Coire with axe & crampons. It's around a 45 degree pitch for about 200 m vertical with a 54 degree inclinometer measured headwall ...
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After descending Coire na Lethcois, a bit of grass skiing, snow patch linking and skibatics. Two of the sluff trails in the bowl behind were left by me, one by skis, and the other by my heavy rucksack that I jettisoned on the way down :P
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Final turns before crossing the river to the bikes ...
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Then back on the bikes for 12 miles (mostly downhill) to Dalwhinnie ...
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With just the one puncture on the way out ...